That’s exactly right.

"dominated *social media influencer Bob Menery, 38*..." ah ok.

listen, faculty, it's us against administrators and legislators. now or never. pick a side.

Why do you want “raucous conversations that might go off the rails”? Are you that desperate to imagine you’re still young?

As an elementary school neared a year's end, someone decided that was the day to end lives. Law Enforcement descended on the school and waited. State officials investigated and did nothing. In November 2022, Texans reelected Abbott. Want change? Don't do it again.

I keep seeing this reposted in my timeline, and every time, the word "harmony" gets bigger and stupider looking. Harmony??? HARMONY??????

Starting this week's journey with the traditional prayer of the traveler: Lord, please don't let me decompensate in an airport.

If I’m not evolved enough to understand it, then why did they have to steal my writing to train it?

omg this is insane

LA is currently running its own Simpson's opening sequence.

1. Number of stories about Trump buying and selling hundreds of millions of dollars in stocks in the first three months of 2026: CBS: 0 CNN: 0 Fox News: 0 NPR: 0 PBS: 0 Politico: 0 Semafor: 0 Business Insider: 0

I remember when Derek Carr told his O-line to forget all that Black Lives Matter stuff & put their faith in Jesus Christ and they let that man get sacked for weeks

The NYT sees itself not as a defender of journalistic principles or a champion of democratic values, but rather a theater critic for political actors. There are no real-world consequences here, no pain or suffering for the common people who aren't in their social circles. It's just a parlor game

The president of the United States of America can be the first one on this list.

Just a reminder that earlier this month, the House passed a bipartisan bill that would make most charitable bail funds illegal.

This is the guy who says he's going to "command" a flyby of Mars for Space X. If "cryptobro" and "civilian astronaut" had been job descriptions when Douglas Adams was alive, he would definitely have put them on Ark Fleet Ship B. gizmodo.com/crypto-bro-c...

At a basic level, party leaders have collectively raised billions of dollars in political spending, the great bulk of which has been directed to ads instead of permanent organizing or media infrastructure. Generational strategic failure regardless of policy preferences and ideology. RIP OFA.

They would seem to be good candidates to apply for a compensation from Trump‘s weaponization fund. When they are denied relief, they will have standing to sue and challenge the whole slimy apparatus.

A consequence? In my United States? It’s more possible than you think!

Congrats to my son Don (?) and his wife probably on their wedding or similar event, such as birthday party. I cannot attend, since there's a quarterback who still thinks I'm fine to be around in public. Best of luck to Eric or whatever kid I said a minute ago and his new Wife 2 or maybe 3.

Someone on Xitter is breathlessly reporting that they are "deeply embedded" in Austin "antifa" Signal channels with people "stalking ICE," which are basically neighborhood groups where people post major threats like "DPS has a speed trap on North Rundberg today."

This is monstrous, evil shit "Cemetery officials confirmed to Task & Purpose that the pages were unpublished” to meet recent orders by President Donald Trump and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth targeting race and gender-related language and policies in the military."

Are you fucking joking with this.

Google AI search continues to be hot garbage.

“I come bearing terrible news,” graduate student Cameron Samuels told the crowd through a megaphone outside the system’s headquarters. “The University of Texas is dead. Yes, you heard that right.” www.texastribune.org/2026/05/20/u...

Interesting that cops now interpret a one-foot-back stance as aggressive ("bladed stance" 🙄). It's taught in de-escalation because it's generally perceived as LESS aggressive than being squared up. I guess cops will call anything aggressive, because that's all they know.

Hero.

"Sometimes using force is a de-escalation tactic" is pure copspeak, Orwell couldn't do it better.

I would be fascinated to learn more about the de-escalation training this officer underwent, and which apparently recommends using hype music to help with emotional grounding and engagement of complex thinking processes.

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Eat shit and, for the monsters who did this to six innocent people, expect hard times.

A Florida wildlife biologist was summarily fired for *reposting* an Instagram joke about Charlie Kirk’s death. LibsofTikTok complained. A state official’s false statements in legal proceedings led to sanctions. And now the state will settle by paying her $485,000. www.aclufl.org/press-releas...

The good news here is that Ben is a pit bull and these prosecutors made a really bad decision when they said "Let's make an example of these people." Bad Decisions Hall of Fame.

/22 Heads should roll. Careers should end. If DoJ won’t do it, the legal community should do it for them. This is appalling and unacceptable behavior throughout, at all levels of this office. The lower attorneys committed misconduct. Boutros was complicit in hiding it from the court.

Fusion centers (not exactly the most "woke" institution on the planet) are now worried that the Department of Homeland Security's tweets are too racist and attracting the wrong people. theintercept.com/2026/05/21/i...

The $1,000,000 Delta Air Lines donated to Donald Trump’s 2025 presidential inaugural fund is really paying off, isn’t it? Atlanta, New York, Los Angeles, Boston, and Seattle are all Delta hubs—and sanctuary cities. Well done, Delta!

Henceforth, any person using the phrase "laser-focused" should be immediately disqualified from any position of influence.

I've been saying this for years. Democrats have wasted billions of dollars renting airtime for ads that everyone hates. Instead, buy the stations. Fund the podcasts. Own the newspapers.

She just watched me swat a fly and throw it in the trash without even offering to share it with her.

"ChatGPT, the most heavily used AI service, gave wrong information in 46% of its answers, including making up an expenses scandal, giving inaccurate replies on voter eligibility rules and getting the date of the election wrong by two months." www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

This bit struck me, as a cross-disciplinary writing instructor and a writer. Complexity, in disciplinary discourse, serves multiple purposes. One is the examination of complex concepts with precision, nuance, and imagination. Another is *distinguishing a discipline from other disciplines.* 1/n

This would be a pointless and vindictive move which would shame those who propose it for the rest of their careers.

Two officers who defended the Capitol against the Jan 6 rioters just sued to block Trump's $1.8 billion slush fund. Check out their standing argument, it's pretty interesting:

When they were building this monstrosity in my neighborhood, with a South/east exposure--in Austin, TEXAS--I remember thinking, That's ridiculous...I mean, you'd have to.... And yep, whoever was dumb enough to buy it duly went out and spent $3-5K on custom drapes that stay closed most of the day.

In 2011, the year he was worth $18 billion, ProPublica reported that Bezos received a $4,000 tax credit for his children. He paid zero income taxes. Jeff Bezos should live in absolute terror of the public he has pillaged from.

Putin’s visit to Beijing is going a lot better than Trump’s. 20 deals on trade and tech signed, a declaration on a “multipolar world order” and a general understanding on the Power of Siberia 2 pipeline that would transport 50 billion cubic metres of gas to China annually.

the fuck it will

"Trump and Thune spoke on Monday, and the president didn’t tell the majority leader he planned to make an endorsement in the race...Instead, an aggravated Trump asked Thune to fire the Senate parliamentarian, after her decision complicated his efforts to secure federal funding for the ballroom"

However appalled you are by this, it’s not enough. It’s a frank statement that Trump and Trumpists are above the law and need not even plausible excuses to loot your tax dollars. It’s a total failure of our civic institutions.